On 21/10/2018 15:28, John Ralls wrote:
On Oct 21, 2018, at 2:51 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
wrote:
I have been repeatedly frustrated by my failure to remember this advice from
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/add_stock#Stocks_noted_in_foreign_currency
If you start your first (buy) transaction from your stock account, the currency
of the parent account will be used. Assuming your default currency is USD and
you wish to buy stocks in EUR, then you should first create a normal asset
account of currency EUR and below this your stock accounts.
Alternatively you could start your first transaction from you EUR cash or bank
account, but with the first approach everything is much clearer - also later if
you forgot the nominal currency.
<<
I find it far more intuitive to start securities transactions from the account
for the particular security, and I prefer to keep the parent accounts by
account rather than by currency. It is easier to start the transactions from a
security account, because the fields provided are described in keeping with
with securities transactions. However, this often gets me in trouble with
securities traded in a currency other than my base currency (CHF). I suspect
that I am not the only one with this problem. Would it be possible to add a
selection for trading currency in the Security Editor? It could default to the
setting indicated above, but there would at least be a way to explicitly see
and control what is now hidden and implicit.
As a case in point, I have a bank relationship which includes securities as
well as accounts in both CHF and USD. The bank erroneously booked the purchase
of a USD-denominated security to my CHF account, and I duly recorded the
transaction that way. After I complained to the bank, they rolled back the
transaction and posted it to my USD account instead. Now I see no way of
correcting the entries in GnuCash other than to delete the account for the
particular security and to recreate it via a transaction starting from my USD
account. Am I missing something here?
You can just move the account, but the transaction currency is immutable so you
will have to delete and re-create the transaction.
As for adding a trading currency to the security editor, it’s possible but the
code for creating transaction currency is kind of splattered around (register,
transfer dialog, scheduled transactions, importers, maybe more) so getting it
right would be a bit of work.
I think it may be even more complicated than that as the OP's tx
involves auto-magicking a 3 part exchange.
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Wm
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